The Hertz Corp. v. Knoechel

Full title: THE HERTZ CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. BERND KNOECHEL, Respondent

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Jun 5, 2002

819 So. 2d 886 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2002)

Opinion

No. 3D02-469.

June 5, 2002.

A Writ of Certiorari to the the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Celeste Hardee Muir, Judge.

Cooney, Mattson, Lance, Blackburn, Richards O'Connor and Warren B. Kwavnick, and David Cooney, Fort Lauderdale, for petitioner.

Ver Ploeg Lumpkin and Hugh Lumpkin and Aaron C. Wong, Miami, for respondent.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J, and GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Finding no valid reason for the trial court's order compelling production of documents protected by the attorney-client and work product privileges, we grant the petition for writ of certiorari and quash the lower court's order.

Certiorari granted.

GODERICH and SORONDO, JJ., concur.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge (specially concurring).

Although there are many others, a primary reason for our decision is that Knoechel's underlying claim is totally unsupportable. As we did in Hialeah Hotel, Inc. v. Talley, 790 So.2d 466 (Fla. 3d DCA 2001), mandamus denied, No. SC01-2077, 816 So.2d 129 (Fla. March 19, 2002), review denied, No. SC01-1916, 819 So.2d 140 (Fla. April 26, 2002), I urge the trial judge to reconsider her prior interlocutory orders to the contrary and put an end to this already overextended litigation.